BRUNSWICK Composites company Owens Corning announced that it is closing its Brunswick plant after 10 years of operation, putting 60 people out of work. Company spokesman Todd M. Romain confirmed that operations at Bibber Parkway would be winding down in the coming months. Employees were told of the impending shutdown at a plant meeting Monday […]

BOWDOINHAM Members of the Merrymeeting Gleaners volunteer group are working to increase the consumption of local, healthy food in the Midcoast — one radish at a time. The pilot program, started in 2016 by the Merrymeeting Food Council, sends volunteer gleaners to harvest surplus produce from farms and farmers’ markets and bring it to soup […]

BRUNSWICK A group of community members aiming to raise nearly $1 million for the Brunswick High School track reconstruction has embarked on a capital campaign. Barry Logan, president of the group RunBrunswick, introduced the organization and its plans to the town’s finance committee earlier this spring. The group formed in January in an effort to […]

BATH Volunteers and organizations working to make their community a better place were recognized recently during the 19th annual Bath Citizen Involvement Day. “Citizen Involvement Day is our chance to say thank you to the Bath community, to the nonprofits, and give them a chance to talk about what they do,” said Erika Benson, executive […]

BRUNSWICK On Oct. 17, Bowdoin College will host a Make Shift Coffee House to discuss “The Rightful Role of Morality in Politics.” The event is part of the What Matters dialogue series organized by the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good. “Sometimes we want our politicians to exercise moral judgement, but other times we […]